Groundhog Day is an old superstition, reliant on old superstition.
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Skeptical of superstition as a source for truth — i.e.
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Such superstition is not uncommon in much of the world.
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It's a common superstition that bad things come in threes.
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Watch, just for a nanosecond Billy gives "Superstition" a shot.
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For some players, superstition plays a role in their looks.
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"Marry in May, rue the day," goes the old superstition.
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Every superstition and improbable streak piles high in their favor.
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I need the drama of superstition when I'm making things.
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There's not really any superstition related to the dead anymore.
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She has yet to light the candle, though, citing superstition.
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Not even America's strangest superstition is safe from climate change's clutches.
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Nowhere is superstition more rife than regarding the subject of 'chin'.
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They found hope or at least optimism, thinly veiled in superstition.
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They described it as dangerous Old World superstition, like using leeches.
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If you have managed to live your life without superstition, congratulations.
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Superstition practices tend to vary across sports, but there are similarities.
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Unfortunately, Dr. Hough doesn't think the superstition will disappear anytime soon.
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All these years, we've been fooled into believing a false superstition.''
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Isn't there some sort of long-held superstition about jersey colors?
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For many in the dominant society, such talk smacks of superstition.
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The couple married in May — an unlucky month, per royal superstition.
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The word superstition comes from the Latin words super and stare.
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"Ultimately, opaque technical operations lead to superstition and fear," Pfeiffer said.
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Yet by doing so, you'd be acquiescing to prejudice and superstition.
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IN EUROPE, a belief in witchcraft is widely associated with medieval superstition.
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They are if the superstition of catching a bride's bouquet holds up!
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To skeptics, it's a resurgence of superstition in an age of science.
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It's an old superstition that's been around the boxing game for years.
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And I hate that—because it encourages superstition and conspiracy theories and . . .
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He never took a ride from anyone (this was probably a superstition).
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Someone can be educated, but they believe in superstition to be successful.
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It's about paganism: the clash between superstition and modernity; authority and sexuality.
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They sought to escape superstition, and sectarianism, and tribalism, and know-nothingness.
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There even was this crazy superstition that he would die in office.
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The science behind superstition 1 in 4 Americans say they are superstitious.
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You're exploring this superstition of the past in really close detail, but do you see the film as having a modern resonance in the way people are reacting to superstition, or religion, or religious leadership, or female empowerment now?
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Or it this misogyny disguised as the benign superstition of the sports fan?
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All told, there may be more to ancient contraception than superstition and desperation.
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Touching wood also became a significant superstition within Judaism during the Spanish Inquisition.
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Mr Moshenska depicts an age that sits between superstition and a scientific revolution.
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The interlude included a boisterous play-by-play and a little superstition. 8.
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The charges once lobbed against Christians — atheism, superstition — were turned against pagan people.
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Other than superstition, it's hard to pinpoint what, precisely, will decide this game.
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Might something more than superstition explain the spell cast by mastic over time?
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Now, you could call that a superstition if you want, it&aposs irrational.
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At least three other people died this year while following the same superstition.
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The answer is a complicated tangle of folklore, history, and good old superstition.
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Maybe attending to supply and demand is not such a quaint superstition after all.
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Superstition runs strong in Cambodia, where the national religion, Buddhism, is flecked with animism.
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According to superstition, it's bad luck for a black cat to cross your path.
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Another superstition is that whenever we hear an ambulance, we always touch our hair.
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There were plenty of skeptics who considered this to be all superstition and trickery.
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Trujillo knew some of this arose from superstition, but he took the matter seriously.
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Nat worship, the nuns insist, is base superstition—a stain on the true faith.
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Sporting superstitions Superstition is also highly prevalent within sport -- especially in highly competitive situations.
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He despised that time and regarded it as a sink of superstition and ignorance.
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In Jakarta, there is still a lot of superstition, even in the capital city.
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And how do you think we can curb the underlying superstition creating this problem?
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Superstition demands that a dressing room cannot be decorated until the reviews are published.
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Moreover, restrictions against censorship are not a "superstition"; they are protections under the Constitution.
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"They are giving superstition the cover of religion," Ms. Sethi said of the protesters.
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Older residents remember when the temple risked destruction as a den of feudal superstition.
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Silver isn't just valuable, it has a long history of association with superstition and myth.
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Related content from our partners: The Ring Gender Test: A Pregnancy Superstition That Really Works?
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People reverted to superstition: sugar lumps soaked in kerosene, and aromatic fires to clear "miasmas".
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Numerologist Felicia Bender tells Refinery29 that numbers derive their power from spiritual energy — not superstition.
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First and foremost, that superstition came from an 1829 fiction novel called Anne of Geierstein.
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Superstition runs in my family the way athletic prowess or blue eyes run in others.
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It's more a pan-African fable about prejudice, superstition, and co-option, particularly around women.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Superstition and looking for luck are a part of daily life in Thailand.
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It sounds a little like superstition but quantum mechanics is a little bit like that.
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It seems like there's a lot more movement on this record than Living on Superstition.
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This superstition is the same reason why many buildings in Asia skip the fourth floor.
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While his mom flirted with host Ryan Seacrest, he belted out "Superstition" for the judges.
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West Africans, it seemed to some, were stuck in the fatal grip of irrational superstition.
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Masculine and feminine energy, superstition and faith — in him, none of those operated as opposites.
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Over the years, some have portrayed this fight as a struggle between superstition and science.
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First, it is all but impossible to avoid learning the superstition in the first place.
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The "distraction" is perhaps entirely superstition, which especially pervades sports, but its effect is real.
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He did not name any officials guilty of practicing superstition or fawning over the West.
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Superstition is deep-rooted among some communities in Tanzania, a nation of 57 million people.
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" She's in touch with the part of herself where "snobbery and superstition overlap most abominably.
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We are trying to convince people that times are changing, but superstition is still strong.
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He cultivated superstition while growing up in Texas, with dreams of being the next DiMaggio.
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The restless natives react to digital shadows on the wall, reduced to fear, hate, and superstition.
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There's a lot of metaphorical weight in this speech, touching on isolation, distrust, superstition and more.
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All that said, he's not moving -- 'cause a little superstition goes a long way with him.
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Fandom is an activity, one in which demonstrativeness and superstition are the twin pillars of participation.
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Superstition leads many people in Tanzania to believe that albinos are ghosts who bring bad luck.
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My daily life has changed in so many significant ways since Living On Superstition came out.
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We thought it would be a good metaphor for the battle of science against faith/superstition.
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"Superstition is so prevalent that the first step is to find a faith healer," she said.
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Though banned, corporal punishment persists, he said, and superstition can often trump knowledge in the classroom.
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It'd be nearly impossible to hold a wedding that followed every single marriage superstition out there.
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If thou be a papist, there shalt thou want no kind of superstition to feed upon.
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And for many players, their choice of socks can influenced by superstition, friendship or even rebellion.
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On New Year's Day, partly out of superstition, we eat black-eyed peas for good luck.
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So if Mr. Trump's fledgling transition looks a little seat of the pants, well, blame superstition.
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Should the Uighurs respect the Chinese Communist Party's distaste for "superstition," and stop practicing their faith?
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We are still as closed, still full of superstition, as we were a hundred years ago.
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You always dug that "Superstition" by Stevie Wonder and you think your audience might do too.
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Part of this belief is the superstition that, perhaps, the universe—God herself—is a computer.
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In an interview with This Morning, the actor revealed just how chained to superstition he is.
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Some call it superstition, others say it's a great resource for spiritual guidance and emotional support.
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At one point, he wanted to halt the planning altogether, out of superstition, the person said.
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Banish superstition, and the major political struggles of the American state will solve themselves by measurement.
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See how the idiots persecute us, the rational, with their superstition and their hostility to objective thought.
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Others lamented that the aliens were "prone to violence" and "wedded to the worst forms of superstition".
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But in Chambers, the indigenous people are the ones rejecting tradition and superstition in favor of rationality.
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The century-old losing streak was often blamed, with various levels of superstition, on a fabled curse.
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H.W. Fowler called it both a "fetish" and a "superstition" in his magisterial usage dictionary of 1926.
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And, it turns out, the poster is just the tip of the food superstition iceberg in Myanmar.
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North Korea's founders originally disdained the story of Dangun as superstition incompatible with their ostensibly socialist ideology.
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It contains densely packed images from his line-art collection, arranged by theme (Superstition; Death, Phones & Scissors).
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This centrality of ceremony is essential to the pull of a story steeped in superstition and custom.
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He confessed to the superstition that he'd lose his wealth if he changed his custard-swirl hair.
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In a country well acquainted with myth and superstition, the "dog-suicide bridge" has invited paranormal explanations.
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The couple perform every act of expiation they can imagine, obey every superstition, worship at every shrine.
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Why don't you press play and listen to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" to put yourself in the mood?
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It sounds like a contradiction that we humans can be so smart but still succumb to superstition.
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Confirmation bias fuels a cycle that empowers the superstition: The Cubs won because I wore the shirt.
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But why would constant superstition, thieves' whispers, or political bullshit accelerate into mass violence at this particular moment?
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Skeptics promote science and reason over superstition and quackery, and have a big overlap with the atheist community.
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Part of the atmosphere is the sense of impending madness, because of the threat of isolation and superstition.
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And during the reception, Lachey, 44, got on stage to sing Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" alongside the bride's mom.
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After the collapse of the country's last imperial dynasty in 1911, China's new leaders spurned it as superstition.
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The high-rise is missing its 13th and 44th floors because of superstition among Chinese and American buyers.
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The imprint of PEACH in Brooklyn suggests that paranoia and superstition can still cast a spell over science.
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Perhaps most importantly, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is said to have believed in the power of the superstition.
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Most of these traits are total fantasy; thank goodness we have science now, to conquer superstition and misinformation.
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On the morning she was to learn the outcome of her test, Sonia found herself clinging to superstition.
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Both science and superstition attributed something special to the meteorite, and therein resided its spiritual or material worth.
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If it does rain, according to superstition, it means good luck and fertility for the newest royal couple.
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A common superstition holds that each of the clover's four leaves represents either faith, hope, love, or luck.
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Carmody kept the book in tow partly out of superstition — the Crusaders kept winning — but also for inspiration.
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During evictions past, I adopted a superstition: Wherever I move, I always leave at least one box packed.
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Tell us in the comments, then read about the N.F.L.'s "obsession with superstition" in this related article.
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The origin of this superstition comes from the ancient belief that the breath and spirit are the same.
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But is it all superstition or can staring into your own eyeballs on hallucinogens really lead to doom?
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KATHMANDU, Nepal — Every winter, in Nepal's snow-covered hills, young women keep dying because of a deadly superstition.
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"Modern secularists dismiss this idea of morality as other-worldly superstition imposed by a kill-joy clergy," Barr said.
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A recent working paper by Naci Mocan and Han Yu, two economists at Louisiana State University, probes this superstition.
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" Neeson makes a passing assumption that Hoffman might have continued the behavior out of a theater tradition of "superstition.
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And it indeed turns out that this last element of the rule comes not from science but from superstition.
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The commitment to critical inquiry requires it to disfavor some views based on religious dogma, social convention or superstition.
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For those of you who want to soften your skin wisely and without superstition, we offer our definitive guide.
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They form a lovely bit of world-building, and successfully convey the choking effect of superstition on small communities.
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For some, the traditional origins of the Friday the 133th superstition probably encourage belief in the day's dark power.
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Perhaps it's superstition, he admits, but he avoids other games for the fear of losing his feeling with Quake.
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Of course, that logic would be idiotic — basing analysis on cycles like that is just this side of superstition.
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But the phenomenon of Punxsutawney's Groundhog Day is a creation of a force more modern than superstition: the media.
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In this process, Hsu seamlessly combines superstition and belief, and science and imagination, in a highly convincing and enticing work.
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And of course, the sea being as powerful as she is, there's a lot of lore and superstition around that.
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Zhou Benshun's case was featured in a government-made documentary about corruption broadcast in October, describing his involvement in "superstition".
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Their primary objectives were industrialisation, the liquidation of illiteracy and superstition, and the mitigation of India's material poverty and backwardness.
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A Vietnamese superstition that it cures cancer does not even have roots in traditional belief, but is a modern invention.
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I already had enough problems with ghosts under the bed, ghosts in the closet and believing in every possible superstition.
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"Sir Duke" and "Superstition" both reached No. 1 years later, while "For Once in My Life" peaked at No. 2.
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The overall effect is like that of a giant Surrealistic collage, a crazy quilt of superstition, paranoia, perversity and idiocy.
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Even at night when the moon is out, we seem lured in by the superstition of darkness in the night.
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Walking down a new street to try to find out who you want to be — what superstition could be sillier?
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Researchers say there is a rational explanation, but in a land of superstition and mystery, others are not so sure.
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Gina is so unimpressed by this childish superstition and so dismayed by her austere environment that she contemplates running away.
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While the other 3 out of 4 Americans might scoff at this, there is actually psychological science to back superstition.
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Over the course of my reporting, several native Floridians said the state's swampy, bipolar weather was the root of their superstition.
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A small study, published last month, found that around 77% of teenage girls in far-western Nepal still followed the superstition.
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The future newlyweds are avoiding the bad luck superstition of the groom seeing the bride in her dress before the ceremony.
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Part of all belief systems, from superstition to canonical religion, is trying to make sense of all this chaos, you know?
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If you look at pregnancy superstition, this would be the time for pregnancy anxiety to end and pregnancy excitement to begin.
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It'd be pretty cool if groundhogs had special weather sensors in their brains, but the whole shadow thing is pure superstition.
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In reality, it's more about superstition, though one could argue that superstitions result from values and norms invented to repress women.
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Beyond the proven success of the Khans at Diwali, Christmas and Eid, Bollywood's producers still rely on superstition to find success.
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Our very own Carolyn Todd documented the superstition guiding fans' thoughts about the finals, and acknowledged how silly it is indeed.
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But his view that he can protect Nigeria's economy from global macroeconomic headwinds through an exchange rate peg borders on superstition.
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Indeed, researchers have observed how in Germany between 1918 and 1940 measures of economic threat correlated directly with measures of superstition.
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The game's understanding of itself is straightjacketed by superstition and macho sentimentality; it communicates exclusively in jargon and cliche and acronym.
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A popular superstition is that if the massive pole is dropped or falls, disaster will befall Afghanistan in the coming year.
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Possibly it had to do with a French superstition that stepping in dog poop with your left foot brings good luck.
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The belief that it should not be restricted is a mistake; the belief that it cannot be censored is a superstition.
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For Mauve, the ceremony of the blood is a perfect symbol for the peculiarly Neapolitan combination of piety, superstition, and fatalism.
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"Left in the surroundings of savagery, he grows to possess a savage language, superstition and life," Pratt is quoted as saying.
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As National Geographic points out, some knights were arrested on that date, but it had nothing to do with the superstition.
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Doug Falconer -- CEO of Falconer Productions, which is producing 'Superstition' -- confirms with TMZ ... there have been no talks to recast Logan.
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Another is that if it's really easy to imagine the bad thing happening, it's just really hard to ignore the superstition.
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As Wilson, who is making a statement in her hair down/beachy waves bride look, keeps saying she doesn't believe in superstition.
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Now it's just out of habit and out of superstition that if I don't do it, I'll forget a line on stage.
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Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow today, and superstition says that this means there will be six more weeks of winter in Pennsylvania.
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Voices Bloom and Living On Superstition feature live moments sculpted into ever-present representations of emotions felt then and now and later.
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The Twilight Zone may lie between science and superstition, but it lands squarely in the most densely populated territory in television, Prettygoodistan.
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Plus, in Lennon's eyes, the distinction between biology and technology being natural and unnatural really comes down to bullshit religious superstition anyway.
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The decision to insert a large rock into the dead child's mouth was likely motivated by panic and superstition in the community.
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The University thinks that it presents a chance to finally cast-off human superstition and morality in favor of pure, unrestrained discovery.
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"On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of," Mencken wrote.
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According to Thai superstition, you should call a newborn "ugly baby" in order to misdirect thieving ghosts enamored of comely young things.
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Richard is told by his Colonel Sanders-looking friend that much of the town's reaction to the murders is rooted in superstition.
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"A Flying Jatt" is what you get when Bollywood feeds on superstition, simplifies environmental issues and adds Sikh pride to the mix.
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There's also a common superstition about 13 people at a table being bad luck, which is thought to have the same origin.
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As the author of a book on the psychology of superstition, my phone often rings during the week preceding Friday the 13th.
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Singh explores how patterns are keystones for our world both in particular and general cases, from nature and human behavior to superstition.
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This couple cleverly upheld the superstition of not seeing your partner before the wedding by looking at one another in a mirror.
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Folk magic out of West Africa, not unlike Haiti's voodoo and Cuba's Santeria, feeds the Jamaican belief in superstition, witches and ghosts.
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"There are stories based on superstition that swimmers are taken away by demons," said Eric Manywa, 2250, who sometimes takes a dip.
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It's based on a very old superstition that the weather on February 2 predicts what the rest of winter will be like.
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If a bear saw its shadow on Candlemas Day, the superstition went, it would return to its den, foretelling a longer winter.
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Greetings & Salutations & Boo — the title referencing the local superstition about this woman artist being the "Witch of Fox Point" — reconstructs her living room.
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The British writer-director Bernard Rose offers some sly comments here on superstition and prejudice, in a complicated thriller with a sharp hook.
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Since the Enlightenment, humans have made unprecedented advances — in science, technology, health conditions, living standards and more — as reason and analysis replaced superstition.
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His work, which recently showed at the Solar Flux Festival, is dripping with symbols of conspiracy, superstition, enlightenment, the Beatles, and Ikea instructions.
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So they relied on superstition to do a check-in halfway through the winter to see how much longer the cold would last.
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My tape with Umor Rex, Interpretations of Superstition, and some of the material off my Opal Tapes release, are all strictly live recordings.
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Stuart Vyse, a psychologist and author of Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition, tells me that superstitions may hold some psychological benefits.
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But the trophy thing has always bothered me, because while it may be just another superstition now, it didn't start out that way.
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The frugality of her generation had congealed into frank superstition: if I caught a flight now, I might dare the disaster into being.
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Despite similar new laws in several states, the practice of witch-hunting, which is rooted in superstition, continues in villages across the state.
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According to Yi, there's a long-standing superstition at the school that students who step on the seal could lose their 4.0 GPA.
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They are allowed to do rituals but cannot claim to have actually accomplished anything with the ritual, or else it is called superstition.
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If only he didn't have his manager remove all the mirrors before this studio session...What did superstition even count for these days?
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Carrying charms, wearing certain clothes, visiting places associated with good fortune, preferring specific colors and using particular numbers are all elements of superstition.
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Her "Akata" novels have been met with some resistance in Nigeria, particularly among religious conservatives who say she is glorifying superstition and witchcraft.
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The small acts of superstition were part of a greater presence of magic in people's everyday lives in the 15th to 18th centuries.
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At first regarded as just a phantom of superstition, the concept of a witch evolved into someone who should be feared and reviled.
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The desire to cling to tradition (and, I would say, superstition) leads these conservatives to be less likely to pursue education and scholarship.
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Unsurprisingly, we are not exactly sure of the historical evidence as to how Friday the 13th became synonymous with bad luck and superstition.
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No. There's no compelling evidence that anything historically bad ever actually occurred on a Friday the 13th to give rise to this superstition.
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It did not emerge from the fug of the Dark Ages, where conspiracy and superstition abounded (not unlike the fake news era of today).
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There seems to be some superstition involved in biscuit-making, or maybe it's just that powerful notion of tradition, which I have to respect.
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Tuttle said the superstition surrounding the gemstone is that it can ward off evil — so could the hair color potentially have the same effect?
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Superstition is deep-rooted among farming communities living along the shores of Lake Victoria in northwestern Tanzania, where most of the attacks take place.
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The movie teeters gracefully between satire and drama, taking jabs at superstition and non-Western exploitation with an impressive performance from its young lead.
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The superstition might be widespread and deeply rooted, but there's no real reason to believe Friday the 13th is unluckier than any other day.
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"We have a lot of things ordered, but I'm Jewish so I have a superstition against it," admitted Berkus, a Celebrity Edge Travel Ambassador.
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Confession: We forgot to say "rabbit, rabbit, rabbit" (or "rabbit, rabbit" depending on what version of the superstition you've heard) first thing this morning.
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Party officials are not supposed to practice religion and the charge of superstition is often leveled against the corrupt to further blacken their names.
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And, at the risk of mawkish superstition, wasn't the brief moment of showmanship, the hope that this was just another false retirement, perfectly apt?
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A 2014 study found that following a superstition or having a lucky charm improves people's self-efficacy, or their belief that they can perform.
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The film's setting and action are resolutely modern, with laboratories, cars and smartphones, but the way some adults behave stems from almost medieval superstition.
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Donoghue's grave consideration of the damage religion can do when it crosses the line into superstition lifts the narrative rather than weighing it down.
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In 2013, 67-year-old Narendra Dabholkar, a doctor and author committed to debunking miracles and religious superstition, was shot during his morning walk.
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The writing falters, overwhelmed by numbers, data, Kafkaesque interpretations of statistics, invasive medical procedures undergone in a fever of superstition or increasingly untenable hope.
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A town once derided for the damaging aftereffects of religion and superstition has now remade itself in the image of its own new myths.
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He defined it, in his signature Professor Spooky voice-over, as a place between light and shadow, science and superstition — you know the drill.
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Osterwalder said his methods bring a more evidence-based rigor to an area of business that has traditionally been handled with superstition and mystery.
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The public may respond with panic, fear and suspicion-- and sometimes even outright superstition, paranoia or moral judgement when it comes to unfamiliar illnesses.
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Most of his peers saw science and culture as liberating humankind from Christianity, Judaism, and other vestiges of what they saw as barbarous superstition.
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"It is kind of a political superstition," said Jeff Nussbaum, partner at West Wing Writers and former speechwriting staffer for Al Gore's 2000 campaign.
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The "Side To Side" singer and the "Superstition" superstar teamed up for the song "Faith," a new track off of new animated flick Sing's soundtrack.
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It's been said that, later on, Christians adopted this superstition from Pagans and, in turn, made it more about Jesus and less about woodland fairies.
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They were there because Bohora was on her period and was required to be isolated from other family members, under the outlawed superstition of Chhaupadi.
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Culture complicates the perception of colour even further; filters ranging from superstition to symbolism all play a part in helping the brain complete the picture.
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According to Martin Fackler in The New York Times, many Japanese today look down on the few remaining itako, believing that they simply promote superstition.
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Instead, young Ugandans mainly learn about sex through rumors and superstition—like the idea that AIDS can be cured if you sleep with a virgin.
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Sometime during 20th century, a false but pervasive superstition regarding Pele's "cursed rocks" began to creep around Hawaiʻi's national parks, especially those with active volcanoes.
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From Martin Luther onward, major Protestant thinkers have violently criticized what they've characterized as the "idolatry" or "superstition" or even "paganism" of the Catholic aesthetic.
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The poster is based far more on superstition than science, but that doesn't seem to affect its popularity, especially in rural areas of the country.
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Horizon's world is one full of superstition; when the mechanical creatures start acting violent and erratic, people pray to a goddess to make things right.
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But, since it's Buddhism that he wants to secularize, he has to be able to show that its traditions are not hopelessly polluted with superstition.
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It is by no means a foregone conclusion that politicians tasked with setting public policy will use rationality and not superstition to guide their decisions.
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After his first bout of malaria, he quickly got over his superstition and started to sleep under the net, but it only helped so much.
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Image: Jeff Kowalsky (AP)It looks like this week is dead set on proving that old superstition about bad omens: They always come in threes.
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He's always sitting in the same spot (it's a superstition, he told me), just next to the big TV, head down, looking at his phone.
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In the mid-19th century, meteorology was a new discipline, and its practitioners struggled to move people's understanding of weather away from superstition and folklore.
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Although the people of Herzogenweiler were deeply devout, theirs was a pre-Reformation sort of Catholicism—a murky brew of folklore, superstition, and pitiless religion.
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Wall StreetIn his book 13: The Story of the World's Most Popular Superstition, Nathaniel Lachenmeyer credits another novel for the widespread fear of Friday the 13th.
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To make this possible, he follows a strict daily routine that includes mental preparation, physical conditioning and a healthy dose of what some might call superstition.
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Like any good superstition, the exact origins of knocking on wood are lost to time, but there are a few commonly held theories about its roots.
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For many years, a female green sea turtle in the eastern town of Sri Racha had to endure this superstition while wading in a public pool.
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The superstition goes if the groundhog sees its shadow, then there'll be six more weeks of winter, and if not, we're treated to an early spring.
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It seems as if, for every negative association there's a positive one — as if the black cat's origins as an object of superstition weren't murky enough.
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Beyond these medical obstacles, the WHO reported that it faces challenges in the form of misinformation, superstition and suspicion among residents in the areas at risk.
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The ritual, the superstition, the deep, deep religious values that people have or not — that's the history that produced 'The Mahabharata' and all of this art.
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Industry wasn't the only culprit: In 1941, as part of a "anti-superstition" campaign led by the Roman Catholic Church, sacred mapou trees were cut down.
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Joyce himself was consumed by his own compulsion for details, his love of coincidence and his obsession for superstition — he built the novel out of them.
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Their consumption is driven as much by the desire to flaunt wealth as by a mix of superstition and belief about the health benefits of wildlife.
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Now, using the pen name he has adopted for his mystery novels, he returns to this exciting era when science and superstition were battling for supremacy.
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Worse, these people were religious aliens — the papist hordes who threatened to swamp Protestant civilization and, in their ignorance and superstition, destroy enlightened democratic American values.
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The cards were used at a game last season — which the team won — and out of superstition, the club's owners have purchased them for each game since.
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Outside of superstition, it might have been a turn-of-the-century dentist's habit to save extracted teeth in order to make dentures, as was the custom.
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I understand the psychological roots of the superstition: not only a thirst for right answers to be revealed with certainty but also a smug pride in ourselves.
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She shows a touch of superstition by always making sure there is pizza during debate prep, because that's been her team's tradition throughout all of her campaigns.
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Brady is confident he'll escape the Madden wrath ... and to prove he won't be scared by any superstition, he broke a mirror and walked under a ladder.
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Most bird nest farmers are hesitant to let someone inside their operation for various reasons, among them superstition, spooking the birds, or fear of stealing their techniques.
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In a video shared on Cade's Instagram, he and Wonder play John Lennon's "Imagine," and Wonder's chart-topping hit "Superstition," much to the delight of the crowd.
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It makes it easier coming to the park every day not having to think about what you're wearing, or if the pitcher decides he has a superstition.
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"Rameau's Nephew" is, in this way, the first debate between two such materialists, both of whom reject superstition and the supernatural but end in radically different places.
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In the last week of the season, more teams will be eliminated (including the Rays), and their players will officially have no distraction superstition as a deterrent.
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Sure, there are plenty of movies "scarier" than "Pan's Labyrinth," but the way the filmmaker Guillermo del Toro evokes myth and superstition is the stuff of nightmares.
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What U.S. Soccer has not done yet, team officials and Coach Bruce Arena say regularly with knock-on-wood superstition, is claim a place in the tournament.
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Out of this personal library came the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection, which holds over 313,231 objects on superstition and witchcraft in Europe, mostly acquired in the 22018s.
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It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
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Becky's parents are unusual sources for malign magic: in most past horror stories, people of color tap into superstition and mysterious otherworldly powers that "civilized" whites don't understand.
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Trump himself has not taken an active part in transition efforts, in part out of superstition: He fears too much planning before a victory might jinx the campaign.
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Mary introduces Grace to an old superstition, where a young woman cuts the complete peel of an apple in one piece and throws the peel over her shoulder.
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And the final boss is God, that morphs into various God-representations... We thought it would be a good metaphor for the battle of science against faith/superstition.
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He criticized organized religion and superstition and was known for his sharp wit, command over the Tamil language and populist schemes for those at the bottom of society.
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It was Crand Cru Berry, a deep-red, berry-packed mead from Superstition in Arizona (Daniel from Sweden scored it 4.7 out of 5 on his ratings sheet).
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For many people, engaging with superstitious behaviors provides a sense of control and reduces anxiety -- which is why levels of superstition increase at times of stress and angst.
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Two years ago, Malleshappa Madivalappa Kalburgi, a former vice chancellor of Kannada University who spent decades debunking peddlers of superstition, was fatally shot in his home in Dharwad.
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That inconvenience, coupled with a superstition that birds from the wild are more virile and better singers than birds bred in captivity, feeds the market for smuggled birds.
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This balancing act of a novel, poised between languages (where the Hippocratic is confused with the "hypocritic" oath), peoples and places, superstition and science, is compounded of misunderstandings.
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Stuart Vyse, a psychologist and author of "Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition," told me that many people turn to "irrational beliefs" in times of dire need.
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I lack the spiritual gene, and I can grow resentful of novels that lead me into a cave of superstition and hushed ignorance and then seal the entrance.
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"They engage in mysterious activities in the dark and so they have been cloaked in superstition since ancient times," Stanford University classics scholar Adrienne Mayor told National Geographic.
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A familiar Victorian superstition claims that a mirror's reflection captures a portion of the soul; breaking a mirror, therefore, injures the spirit of the person who broke it.
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In his memoir, published in 1940, three years before his death, he declared himself to be an out-and-out rationalist, dismayed by the tenacity of religious superstition.
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Ms Wilson notes Epicurean contempt for religious superstition, self-serving clergy and faith-based warfare, but sees common ground with believers in the shared conviction that "morality matters".
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The superstition that groundhogs could predict the weather had already traveled to Pennsylvania from Germany, and local newspapers printed reports on whether groundhogs saw their shadow on Candlemas.
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Edelman had been growing out the face fuzz as a thing pro athletes do in the playoffs -- and if you know anything about pro athletes, they're VERY into superstition.
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For a full dining experience, mosey up to Superstition Saloon, where the seats are actual horse saddles and the walls are covered with dollar bills signed by past guests.
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In an email to a USA Today reporter regarding a story on Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Ferracane referred to the superstition as "deeply offensive" to the islands' indigenous community.
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On the night of Stevie Wonder's birthday, the older performer showed up for a rendition of "Superstition," with Prince playing bass in the background, grinning from ear to ear.
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Ye Htut Win added that a few individual ingredients shrouded in superstition are sometimes culprits of food poisoning and/or food allergies (such as dairy products, pork, and mushrooms).
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Or the superstition that their feet are lucky, leading lots of humans to carry around rabbit's feet without considering what might have happened to the rest of the rabbit.
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Colonization also created arbitrary divisions of western scientific rationale, logic and technology versus eastern superstition and magic, which further devalued any genuine scientific knowledge present before the colonizers arrived.
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So he's a target for every crazy "Game of Thrones" superfan (like me) in addition to those who stare, taunt or touch him for luck — a superstition about dwarves.
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He adds that referring to a fear of Friday the 13th as a "phobia" may be a misnomer, since phobias are usually grounded in something other than a superstition.
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"We cannot accept the use of feudal superstition to slander this building," Pan Shiyi, the chairman of SOHO China, wrote on Thursday on Weibo, a popular social media site.
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My sister and mother named him Grapefruit because in Korea there is a superstition that if you name your pets after a fruit, they'll live for a long time.
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But for Jack Hartnell it's a mistake to cast the Middle Ages as a muddy and backward time when truth was hidden, onionlike, under layers of superstition and dogma.
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You may have heard the old wives' tale that, at a dinner table of 133 people, one person shall die — that superstition dates all the way back to Norse mythology.
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Whether you subscribe to the Groundhogs Day superstition that an animal can predict the weather better than a meteorologist or not, one thing is certain: summer is finally upon us.
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While it might seem harmless to take part in a little science-based superstition and find out whether you're more Batman or Superman, such indulgence can have serious side effects.
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Some retailers are betting on fans' superstition to help them sell televisions, especially after Brazil was unceremoniously axed from the 2014 contest in a 7-1 blowout loss to Germany.
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WHENEVER Xu Jie goes to the cinema to watch mystery and detective films, she leaves disappointed: to help stamp out superstition, China's censors excise ghosts and zombies from the screens.
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By the time Stevie came back for the third time, first covering Donny Hathaway's "Someday We'll all be Free" and then for some reason "Superstition," I was all Prince'd out.
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Party officials in officially atheist China are not supposed to practise religion and the charge of superstition is often leveled against those accused of corruption to further blacken their names.
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But Mr. Trump remained preoccupied almost exclusively with the campaign and refused to discuss the transition with his aides out of superstition, according to two people briefed on the process.
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A quick drive north will take you to the the majestic Superstition Mountains, the southern tip of a massive national park complex that includes several National Forests and Humphrey's Peak.
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The 153 pilot episode, airing a decade before the first moon landing, bore what would become the series' hallmark: narrating Cold War anxieties through a mix of science and superstition.
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But he may have seen an opportunity in the superstition on display around the corner: People would come to hammer nails to a tree, a practice believed to cure toothaches.
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It has been some time now since epileptics had only the saints for recourse, though the path from superstition and desperation to social acceptance and medical improvements has been fraught.
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"It's a mistake to cast the Middle Ages as a muddy and backward time when truth was hidden, onionlike, under layers of superstition and dogma," our reviewer Josephine Livingstone writes.
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Although the Communist state suppressed religion as superstition until after Mao's death in 1976, it recognized five faiths — Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Taoism and Islam — which are managed through "patriotic" associations.
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Exactly how a fringe local superstition transformed over a few years into a nationwide industry whose value WildAid puts at $30 million is obscured by the shadowy nature of the trade.
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One government adviser said some officials were going beyond logic and seeking an explanation in numerology, a superstition that becomes one main character's obsession in Tolstoy's epic novel "War and Peace".
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Instead, critics of superstition are best advised to work with the grain of human psychology rather than against it, finding more benevolent ways to satisfy human yearning for something "out there".
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Maybe it was a good thing that the last song of the evening other than the encore was "Superstition," which came out of nowhere and had nothing to do with Prince.
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We're not ones for superstition and curses here at VICE Sports but, man, maybe just pump the breaks for a second all you Cubs fans racing to buy tickets, ya know?
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Stuart Vyse was professor of psychology at Connecticut College and is the author of "Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition," which won the American Psychological Association's William James Book Award.
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There is no reason to close all the background applications—it's just a myth, a superstition born of having only a little bit of information about the larger mystery of technology.
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Recent years have seen several cases of officials jailed as part of President Xi Jinping's crackdown on corruption being accused of superstition, part of the party's efforts to blacken their names.
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Although there is no single definition of superstition, it generally means a belief in supernatural forces -- such as fate -- the desire to influence unpredictable factors and a need to resolve uncertainty.
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He shared chef duties at the first two and takes the wheel himself at Ugly Baby, which is named after the Thai superstition that evil spirits won't bother harming unattractive infants.
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Jimmy doesn't share this superstition, and in any case he has a plan, or at least a how-to list for bank robbers that he decides to adapt for new circumstances.
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The practice is derived from a traditional superstition in which believers pray to fetuses that have been aborted or were still-born in hopes that the spirits will bring them blessings.
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Radha Paudel, who founded the Radha Paudel Foundation in 2016 to campaign for "dignified menstruation", said she found many women still quietly lived in isolation during their periods due to superstition.
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A longstanding superstition holds that saying the title of William Shakespeare's "Macbeth" while inside a theater — unless you are rehearsing or performing the play itself — will bring about a terrible curse.
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The religious superstition of the creeks and hollers where the aftermath of the Great Depression endures has already fended off so many advances in rational thinking that it's impenetrable by now.
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Like many couples, the pair figured they'd err on the side of caution and avoid the back luck superstition of the groom seeing the bride in her wedding dress before the ceremony.
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Kurlander also records the attempts of leaders like Reinhard Heinrich to expel occultists from the Party, which proved impossible given that the science-averse Nazi religion depended on superstition to justify itself.
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Ankang University in northwest China said in an online notice that student informers should formally report professors who spread superstition, cults and pornography, "promote Western political values," and criticize the party's tenets.
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The allegations reported by BuzzFeed News included unwanted sexual advances and groping at conferences of atheists and skeptics, a movement against superstition and quackery in which Krauss has risen to celebrity status.
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Like any country, Japan has thousands of ghost stories born from superstition and generations of unscientific early history, but many Japanese spooks are a lot more pragmatic than you might find elsewhere.
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"It's a nervous superstition that I always have before we go on a broadcast," Cena, a 16-time World Champion and one of the highest-paid wrestlers in the WWE, told Clarkson.
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It may seem like superstition, but architects from around the world have made major design decisions based on feng shui, decisions that we can see and that may even affect our lives.
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Rutema is one of four Tanzanian children with albinism visiting the United States to get prosthetic limbs to replace those hacked off in brutal superstition-driven attacks in their East African homeland.
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I've been doing these personal gestures, these physical gestures in my last shows: exposed penises, talking about the mystery of the penis, and the superstition of the penis and the shame involved.
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In this case maybe Susie and Nick's sense of superstition, their sense that Arthur's death was foretold or predicted somehow becomes a healing device and a coping mechanism to fit their narrative.
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Hotrod would play a verse and chorus of a song—Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" was a highlight—and then tell us a bit of his life of sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.
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A quirk: Hotel 50 Bowery has no 13th or 14th floor, as the former is, of course, considered bad luck in many countries across the globe, and the latter, a Chinese superstition.
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The world changes now upon us are irrefutable evidence that the visions of the elders were no mere superstition, but an intuitive depth charge from the deepest part of the human psyche.
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These practices further evolved in the Enlightenment to include an attempt to apply the methods of the experimental sciences to human problems, fighting superstition and cruelty by making life's choices more rational.
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They encouraged a sense of pride in being African, and in African notions of gender and family; but they also stressed the advent of a "new Africa", which renounced witchcraft and superstition.
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But even if the craze will soon blow over, no government has succeeded in taming rampant superstition in Thailand, where charm-peddling is a lucrative trade and even the royal family uses soothsayers.
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People with the genetic disorder, which is characterised by an absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes, have long suffered from discrimination in Malawi, where superstition about the condition runs deep.
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The 48-year-old has starred in two controversial films in the MSG: The Messenger series, which released last year after facing considerable opposition from India's censor board on grounds of promoting superstition.
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Superstition holds that having a piece of a person with albinism can bring luck finding a well-stocked fishing site or a plentiful gold mine or bring a victory in politics, Rwela said.
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I drove northeast into the high desert in a black Toyota Tundra, past the jagged Superstition Mountains, and worked my way up the escarpment of the Mogollon Rim that borders the Sonoran Desert.
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She held my hand and said she knew someone was going to come get her today, that she'd been waiting for me, and so that's been built into the whole superstition of it.
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It's about 50 percent postcolonial escape fantasy, in which an uptight Briton moves to a tropical outpost of the former empire and learns to balance Western rationalism with Eastern superstition, emotion and ease.
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In Toronto, Jessica Handelman, owner of the online fine jewelry site Jessica Jewellery, echoed the idea that evil-eye jewelry purchases from her line are increasingly fashion statements rather than responses to superstition.
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Many cultures observe "first footing," a superstition under which the first person to enter a home portends what kind of fortune those who live there will have for the rest of the year.
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The gjallarhorn is an item from norse mythology, and if there is one thing I know for sure about mythology it's that it very rarely concerns itself with superstition or portents of the future.
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"Reaching your goals, even the smallest, might seem more arduous than you'd like," but being present today, rather than hiding from it out of fear or superstition, will be beneficial in the long run.
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But, if you don't happen to be familiar with this particular superstition, then, from here on out, mark your calendars to start saying it on the first of every month to ensure good fortune.
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To counter the superstition, everyone is required to kiss a horseshoe before the ship casts off, which later comes to be a source of conflict when things don't go as planned with the journey.
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It was a childish superstition, this belief that if she blanked out her mind hard enough and long enough it would erase what had just happened from the recorder if not from her life.
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Once the Eugenics Wars were over, and Zefram Cochrane had invented the warp drive, surely humanity would find a way to eliminate awkwardness, along with war, intolerance, avarice, superstition, and other pressing social ills.
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Their latest and 13th studio album This (is what I wanted to tell you), which they're billing as their 14th out of superstition, picks up on the autotuned textures of their last effort FLOTUS.
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The little hut where she was pressured to sequester herself during her menstrual period — and where she died — was smashed apart, erasing the last mark of another young life lost to a deadly superstition.
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"We have found three things: There is a clear lack of awareness about this issue, tradition and superstition is deeply rooted in the society, and the entrenched patriarchy is also hugely responsible," she said.
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ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hundreds of young girls in Kenya's ethnic Kuria community will be spared female genital mutilation (FGM) in 2017 because of a superstition that the number seven is unlucky, campaigners say.
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But then, Nick is back to his old self, embarrassing Diane in front of everybody about her Champagne-toasting superstition, giving everyone a hint that things might not be exactly perfect again between these two.
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Like many shelter animals, Tori suffered the double stigma of being abandoned and having darker fur in a country that favors lighter-colored animals as pets, and avoids those with black pelts out of superstition.
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" A few of our favorite selections, per the NBC video: "Superstition," by Stevie Wonder, several David Bowie tracks, "If I Were a Rich Man" from Fiddler on the Roof, and Neil Diamond's "Coming to America.
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Time travel Too many science fiction dramas "casually make up myths, have monstrous and weird plots, use absurd tactics, and even promote feudalism, superstition, fatalism and reincarnation," China's regulators complained in a March 2011 diktat.
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At the very least, while you work out that superstition, you can also be a bit more proactive by using a tool that will unearth money for you, like Credit Karma's new Unclaimed Money feature.
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Maybe I had a string of bad breaks and started to psych myself out; maybe The Man Who Does Nothing was me the whole time, using magic and superstition to account for my own failures?
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It's a callback to the superstition and scare tactics that keep Latinx kids everywhere in fear of the actual devil taking over their body, La Llorona claiming their soul, or chupacabras ripping their eyes out.
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Vlad was notorious for his cruelty, impaling Turks and thieves on wooden stakes, but he was no vampire and vampires are not part of Romanian superstition, which includes the belief that garlic wards off evil.
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Yes, "The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church" — but that was in the premodern, not-yet-disenchanted world, in which superstition bred zealotry and privation made every civilizational encounter zero-sum.
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But because black cats and broken mirrors and Fridays the 13th are quite rare, it's almost impossible not to associate a calamitous event that befalls you when they're nearby with the superstition attached to them.
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"Many obscure rituals are rooted in superstition — the dodging of evil spirits, protecting the couple, or the hope of obtaining good fortune," said Amanda Miller, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Indianapolis.
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The show dealt with notions of superstition, luck, and fate, pieced together in a deskilled, ad hoc manner that reflected his view of his circumstance with characteristic humor, through a lens of reimagined cultural mythologies.
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The journalist, who lived alone in the city of Bangalore, in southern India, was known as a "rationalist," a term in India for people who stand against superstition and the use of religion in politics.
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The idea that loving your single life will somehow give off the wrong kind of happiness vibes and tell the universe that you don't want a partner is garbage superstition, and I'm not having it.
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Will is a man of the Enlightenment who sees no reason that science and faith may not go hand in hand, and he considers the townspeople's belief in the serpent to be a dangerous superstition.
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The end of the 18th century was the great age of classification, when everybody started trying to nail down all kinds of things that, in the past, had been labeled as folklore, mythology, or weird superstition.
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This superstition is so pervasive that, even if you haven't intentionally physically crossed your fingers, you may have used the expression in conversation (probably when talking about something good you want to happen in the future).
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Lark, accessible by ship only twice a year from the mainland, is a closed patriarchal society mired in religion, paganism, suspicion, superstition and corrupt do-goodery which has suspended it in a sort of unenlightened rigor.
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He credits people with often making "very good decisions" but then points out that superstition (belief in fortune tellers and astrologers) and wish-fulfillment (hope that alternative medicine can cure an illness) can lead us astray.
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Despite the superstition around the number 13, magazine founder Carine Roitfeld has always considered it to be a lucky number, which is why she dedicated this issue to celebrating the amazing work UNICEF USA does worldwide.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Four Tanzanian children with albinism who lost limbs, fingers, and teeth in superstition-driven attacks made their way home this week after receiving prosthetics - and a dose of confidence - in the United States.
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The pace of life in NYC is so breakneck, too, in every facet of daily life, it felt dishonest to focus on the slower moments of my compositions in the same way as Living on Superstition.
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She captures perfectly the "simultaneous beauty and sadness" of Matera — the instep in the boot of Italy — its midday heat (like "stepping into a pizza oven"), its brutalizing poverty and superstition, its stark, if accidental, symbolism.
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Progressive women who don the scarlet robes and white hats of "The Handmaid's Tale" in protest of Judge Kavanaugh and other conservatives say they fear a backward, dystopian society where science takes a backseat to superstition.
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Serious yet melodramatic, they contrast statements of stark deprivation ("I Cannot Be Fixed") with images of exposed hearts; weapons; burning eight balls; broken pencils; and a large, injured eye, conjuring faith, superstition, violence and thwarted expression.
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It understands what was good about the original, and effectively transports old fans and new converts to the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition...and welcomes them back to The Twilight Zone.
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That view was shared by Mao, who argued that coffin-making was a waste of wood and money and that elaborate burials fostered superstition (ironically, his embalmed body now lies in a glass sarcophagus in central Beijing).
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After the Scientific Revolution, priestcraft and superstition lost credibility, and after American independence, the French Revolution established hopes that liberty and equality for all were on the way, putting an end to material penury and social hierarchy.
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Superstition also explains why many buildings do not have a 13th floor -- preferring to label it 14, 14A 6663B or M (the 13th letter of the alphabet) on elevator button panels because of concerns about superstitious tenants.
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The rep says Stapp switched to a different bus a couple days later when he got to St. Petersburg, FL -- not so much out of superstition, but because the Weiland factor just hit too close to home.
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From there, the myth around the day continued to build, as myths will do, and by the time we reached 1980, and the beginning of the Friday the 133th movie franchise, the superstition was firmly in place.
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But Peter tells me libertarianism is the only reasonable position for a mind "finished with superstition," that Lincoln fought slavery, justified by Christianity, that logically nobody has the right to impose control on anyone else at all.
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Like many players these days, Hart has a superstition about being the last off the ice, but his comes with a twist: Instead of applying only to warmup, he wants to be last off for intermission too.
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Although fundamentalist Christians might paint both groups with a broad brush, Satanists are distinguished from witches—the former tend to describe themselves as adhering to a non-theistic religion opposed to superstition, while the latter decidedly embraces it.
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Where kids who are undesirables in certain places, kids who are born with deformities, or kids who are born in a way that superstition says is wrong are still being sort of hunted and killed and so on.
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Academics Mete Kazaz and Halit Kartal describe the trend as a fusion of folklore and reaction to Islam, noting that the concepts of both the djinn and magic are common elements of both Turkish superstition and the religion.
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Until recently, many Saudis avoided the rock-hewn pre-Islamic tombs at Al Ula out of a pious superstition that they were haunted, and non-Muslim tourists who wanted to visit the country almost never found a way in.
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As the seven episode long first season went on, Patsavas would showcase some iconic songs and musical giants who weren't often heard on primetime: Stevie Wonder's "Superstition," the Isley Brothers' "It's Your Thing," and Edwin Starr's "War" among them.
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"Physiognomy is now universally, and rightly, rejected as a mix of superstition and racism disguised as science," the researchers write in the paper's introduction (physiognomy judged based on facial features, while the more notorious phrenology focused on skull shape).
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One superstition held that whoever bit their apple first would be the first to marry, while another claimed that if a girl slept with her bitten apple underneath her pillow, she'd see her future soul mate in her dreams.
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He walks us through a grisly narrative that combines kitschy "spookiness" with a somewhat reductionist view of the trials, portraying them purely as the result of ignorant superstition, even as he uses the tropes of magic for dramatic effect.
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Without the context of the Hellenic belief system, the faith that compels Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia comes across as superstition, although Mr. Icke clearly lays out the moral stakes in sacrificing a child to win a war.
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Modern versions of this superstition haunt the mothers of congenitally disabled children; they experience corrosive guilt about exposure to toxins ranging from face cream and nail polish, alcohol and cigarettes, to thalidomide and the BPA in our plastic bottles.
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And tossing the garter — borne from a centuries-old superstition when guests believed tearing the bride's wedding dress and ripping off a piece would bring good luck and fertility — is largely a thing of the past, much like dowries.
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To me, the scientific method is the most powerful tool we have to work toward the truth, as difficult as it may be to define that term in a field as steeped in culture, tradition and superstition as cooking.
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In a sense, the movie is a portrait of multiple sets of foolhardy expeditioners, scientists who dream of doing the impossible and hunters who search for mammoth remains despite a longstanding superstition that finding them will bring bad luck.
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One month later, on April 14, Governor Cuomo signed the bill into law, and 120 days later, on September 1, 2016, New York State finally shook off the shackles of superstition and paranoia and joined the rest of the civilized world.
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The regulator accused firms of chasing eyeballs with personalized podcasts containing content like pornography, superstition and, to some surprise, "two-dimensional culture," a term referring to a fast-growing industry consisting of anime, comics and games inspired by Japanese pop culture.
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They simply hang on the wall, sit on the floor, lean against a column, or lie heaped in a corner, their expansive, spongy forms taking over the room, as if bulging with the good luck that superstition ascribes to the amulets.
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Older women in particular have been targets in these small villages, as some young men, often under the influence of drugs and alcohol, believe a widespread superstition: that having sex with a grandmother cures HIV and washes off all sins.
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We all know the superstition about how boxers aren't supposed to have sex before a big match—to refocus that pent up desire on his or her opponent, but van Gaal seems to be telling his players to embrace the sexiness.
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" After winning the Civil War, Ulysses Grant predicted that if another broke out "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's, but between Protestant patriotism and intelligence on one side, and Catholic superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
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That is generating excitement in the kingdom, while upending a superstition among many Saudis - and long-backed by religious edicts - that the area is haunted by jinn, the malevolent spirits of the Koran and Arabian mythology, and must be avoided.
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He dazzled Charles with his visionary talk—of rescuing humanity from "the superstition of the intellect" and of restoring the ancients' spiritual oneness with the natural world—and then convinced Charles that he was the man to lead the crusade.
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Despite a lack of scientific evidence supporting traditional Chinese medicine, its practices, which steeped in superstition and the concept of vital energy, are widely practiced in the world's most populous nation, often at the expense of rare and endangered animals.
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When he is approached by the Albatross Society, a secret association designed to protect albas from the twin threats of superstition and science, he hopes its mastermind, the hedonistic Hendrich Pietersen, will be able to help him track her down.
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No, she said on another occasion, the White House was not accepting an offer of cats from feline groups eager "to quash a purported superstition that cats in the house cause the death of Presidents," as The New York Times reported.
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The reluctance to discuss the topic, though, seems less a matter of secrecy than something akin to superstition: Arena and U.S. Soccer may be less concerned about protecting trade secrets than about advancing concern, rather than awareness, inside the team.
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Gioia rightly acknowledges the importance of Robert Johnson, the blues master of the mid-1930s, celebrating the overt carnality, blunt violence, and debt to magic and superstition in his music and image, as well as the formal rigor of his musicianship.
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As Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" played in the background when she walked on stage to present, the actress held up her silk dress and carefully took small, dainty steps towards the microphone to work with the snug design of her skirt.
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Robert "Palmyra" Wood (whose landmark 1753 volume The Ruins of Palmyra greatly influenced the development of neoclassical architecture in Europe) expressed bewilderment that the inhabitants of Tadmur wouldn't let him carry off inscriptions — he could only blame their greed or superstition.
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"This is surprisingly tricky, but essentially it's a subgenre of horror media that often deals with landscape, belief, folklore, superstition, and the supernatural in various mixes," said Adam Scovell, filmmaker and author of Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful and Things Strange.
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" (Google declined to make Agüera y Arcas available to comment on this report.) Kosinski and Wang's paper clearly acknowledges the dangers of physiognomy, noting that the practice "is now universally, and rightly, rejected as a mix of superstition and racism disguised as science.
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There were notable exceptions to that, and a lot of very good researchers and experimentalists back then, but also a lot of their remedies that had been found through trial and error and, in some cases, only persisted through superstition and folk tradition.
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Maybe it's just superstition, but because Stardew Valley lets you check your fortune for the day on the TV, I started chucking that into my daily routine like it was The Jeremy Kyle Show and I was a freelance video game writer.
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Superstition about the site can be traced back to a hadith, or saying attributed to the Prophet Mohammad, warning Muslims not to enter "unless you are crying ... lest you suffer the affliction" of its people, said to have perished for their sins.
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"Trupti was detained by police following the protests on numerous occasions, and letters threatening to assassinate her in a similar fashion to Narendra Dabholkar [a prominent rationalist and anti-superstition activist assassinated in 2013] have been sent since," a spokesperson told Broadly.
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In August, I followed a polio vaccination crew in Kandahar and saw how, even in areas where health workers have been able to function, many things stand in their way: security fears and drought, deep poverty and stifling tradition, widespread illiteracy and superstition.
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It came into being in the 18th century, when a few like-minded men upheld science as the key to individual freedom and began to hope that universal reason would replace the evidently sectarian points of view of religious faith or superstition.
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This superstition stems from an old Pagan belief that spirits live in trees, and if you knocked on the tree, you were seeking the help from the good spirits, or making sure the bad spirits couldn&apost hear you, and cause you harm.
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Consider: (Also remember that the whole reason many Cubs fans believe their team hasn't won in all these decades stems from a superstition: When a billy goat was booted from their stadium in 1945, its owner cursed the team.) Superstitions are universal.
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In that letter, Jefferson argued that the greatest achievement of the declaration was its arousing men to burst free from the chains imposed upon them by superstition and myth by bringing about a recognition of their individual rights and an embrace of self-government.
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The White House has been waiting to actively vet candidates for Kavanaugh's seat until after his confirmation, out of respect for the process and also a healthy dose of superstition, according to one person familiar with the vetting who was not authorized to speak publicly.
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Human curiosity and confidence have been battling superstition since the dawn of time, and stories about places where the two conflict can be potent metaphors for the way humanity is constantly learning that no amount of knowledge can entirely fix the problem of fear.
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There are many theories about the source of this superstition, but the most lasting and convincing points to the biblical account of the Last Supper, which the Bible describes as a gathering of Jesus and the 12 apostles just before Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday.
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Similarly, the company skipped the OnePlus 4 due in part to superstition around the number in its native China and an apparent company-wide obsessions with Robert Horry, a small forward for the Los Angeles Lakers who wore the number from 1997 to 2003.
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In fact, the original mythological tomb, likely dynamited during Stalinist purges against "religious superstition," was described by J. Theodore Bent in The Contemporary Review in 1896 as a popular Christian Armenian shrine, although other observers have reported that Muslims, too, considered the site sacred.
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" The Satanic tribute is one of four in the Capitol rotunda, along with the Christmas tree, the menorah and a solstice display from an anti-religion group that includes a sign that says, "Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.
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I felt grateful to Atatürk that my parents were so well educated, that they weren't held back by superstition or religion, that they were true scientists, who taught me how to read when I was three and never doubted that I could become a writer.
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It is a culture in which hunting and marksmanship are rituals of manhood; where rowdy gatherings at the local tavern and sentimental paeans to healthy rural life go hand in hand; and where citizens are prone to superstition and see evil forces at work everywhere.
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A source of indulgence, entertainment, and superstition for many working-class black families throughout the country, The World According to Fannie Davis offers a fascinating glimpse of how it all worked, set against the backdrop of a thriving Detroit and then a blighted one. —T.
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Even in my lucky circumstances I am left with flickers of superstition and magical thinking, no matter how long it has been since I've realized that most of what I was taught as a child is not something I agree with as an adult.
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By the arrival of 19th century, skyscrapers were being built without 13th floors and men were defiantly forming "Thirteen Clubs" — societies made of 13 men who deliberately met to defy the odds and debunk the superstition put in place by Judas and Loki centuries hence.
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Epstein and the rest of the current Cubs administration never entertained the likelihood that the curse of the billy goat was real or anything, but being baseball people who tend to adhere to routine and respect superstition anyway, it was never entirely dismissed, either.
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I didn't feel an emotional connection to Lovecraft the way LaValle did as a kid, but the apprentice writer in me was thrilled by his inventiveness and a certain voracity of the imagination that shaped everything — history, myth, superstition, reality, fiction, science, everything — to suit his vision.
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It argues that people who believe guns make America safer, among other fallacies, display a strain of superstition that has always existed in American politics, on the right and the left, but which in recent decades has concentrated on the right, and now threatens to subsume it.
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He pokes holes in the story humans in the Western world have been telling themselves for centuries: that we were once blinkered by myth and superstition, but then the ancient Greeks discovered reason and, later, the Enlightenment cemented rationality as the highest value in human life.
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In short, Dr. Hough's study "debunks the prevalent superstition some people have that the moon tells us something about the danger," said John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California who directs the Southern California Earthquake Center and was not involved in the new study.
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The Japanese side of him seems harder for him to parse and contend with; like so many immigrants in a diaspora, he seems drawn to the folklore and superstition of his homeland to help him make sense of what's happening in the war and at home.
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In making the announcement that the Broncos would indeed defy convention and wear their away jersey, John Elway, the team's executive VP of operations and general manager, cited the team's past Super Bowl performances for the decision, strongly suggesting this was a decision based on superstition.
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By the 20th century, the British themselves had got into the habit of admiring the Wahhabis and those who appeared to be their Indian followers, whom they saw as the Protestants of Islam out to destroy the decadence and superstition of their corrupt and Catholic coreligionists.
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In Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the murder of King Duncan seems to lead to a solar eclipse that turns the day dark and reflects the horror and evil of human misconduct; today, the punctual arrival of an eclipse seems a tribute less to superstition than to mathematical exactitude.
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Yankees 143, Blue Jays 3 There has been no scientific study to prove that the extra cuts taken in the Home Run Derby can sap the power from a slugger's swing; like the aversion to stepping on the first-base line, it exists more as baseball superstition.
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" Read Our Review No. 11 Zadar and nearby islands, Croatia "With fables and allegories, as well as events borrowed from the headlines, Obreht illustrates the complexities of Balkan history, unearthing patterns of suspicion, superstition and everyday violence that pervade the region even in times of peace.
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More than just a superstition or a rehashing of the old home remedy of drinking a bowl of warm milk before bed, recent research has shown that milk taken from cows at night has significantly higher levels of tryptophan and melatonin, substances long known to promote and enhance sleep.
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The French eighteenth-century movement that once was seen to have bathed Europe in the light of reason—fighting for science against superstition, and for liberty against bondage—has become the villain of many a postmodern seminar and of even more revisionist histories, from left and right alike.
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He whispers the lyrics into your ear softly, as he performs "Superstition" with you, graciously ignoring the fact that you look and sound not unlike the guy with a Rock Voice who always got voted off during the second week of the American Idol live finals every year.
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In a country where people often rely on faith and superstition to understand the world, Mr. Sutopo's job sometimes entails explaining the science of disasters, such as the fact that quakes and volcanic eruptions are caused by the shifting of tectonic plates that form the earth's outer layer.
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That record of success, along with a mix of unmatched ambience, undying support and — not surprisingly — a little bit of superstition, has turned this college-football-mad town in the Midwest into the de facto caretaker of what is the United States' biggest soccer match on home soil.
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Here the spoiled wives of Shanghai bosses—all carrying prized male heirs—consume diets rich in superstition (no bananas, which cause babies to slip out early); schedule Caesareans on auspicious dates; and pick English names worthy of their princelings (perhaps Stanley, in honour of Morgan Stanley, or Warren, after Warren Buffett).
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To prove her whereabouts, the season 23 star shared a video from the wedding that saw Dehlbom accidentally getting hit in the face with the bride's bouquet after it was tossed — so seems she might be getting married soon after all if the wedding superstition about catching the bouquet comes true.
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If you're a farmer, either you can trust expertise, which will not give you a specific answer but is likely to get you a rough sense of what's going on, or you can trust superstition, which will give you a specific answer that has only a 40% chance of being correct.
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As the images leap from an oval-framed thunderstorm ("Abenglaube / superstition") to a paved-in canal ("Ableiten / derive") to a faint faux-imprint of the artist's hand ("andeuten / imply"), each drawing becomes another stage in a limitless stream of possibilities — "the gift of beginning again," as the artist describes natality.
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Since the age of Queen Victoria, it's been a superstition that it's unlucky for British royals to get married in May, but Meghan and Harry, who tied the knot on May 19, 2018, were one of the few royal couples to do so, according to Claire Nowak of Reader's Digest.
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When I listen to the score now, to the booming orchestral percussion and whinnying violins that fill every corner of "Phantom Thread III" or the arpeggiated strings and piano that cascade like tulle on "Endless Superstition," I imagine Alma's character learning to understand herself, and each song accompanying her personal growth.
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Her superstition includes making sure she wears them in at least a half marathon before she wears them in a full marathon—in her psyche, that ensures her best chances at breaking a PR. Finding the perfect pair of running shoes is glorious in itself—especially once you break them in.
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"Warren, along with her late husband, Ed, are audacious and unabashed frauds, capitalizing on the completely meritless superstition which is all too common in modern society," The Viking News of Westchester Community College wrote in a 2012 editorial objecting to the use of student activity fees to pay Ms. Warren to lecture.
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Even as the set changes to become the town hall, the local newspaper office, or when white shapes spiral down through a projector as the ghost of Magdalena's mother speaks through her granddaughter, the garden, altar, and graveyard all are still visible — reminding the audience of Milagros's deep connection to superstition, religion, and nature.
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" But plenty more people have shrugged it off, saying it's a dated superstition: 我也覺得都什麼時代了還信送鐘實在是很無聊。 — Soo Jū-hông (@speaktaiwanese) January 9, 2017 Soo Juhong says: "We're living in modern times — being superstitious over a clock is lame.
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And because Smart-Grosvenor wasn't just a brilliant cook but also a writer, she knew how to turn an unsuccessful trip to the grocery store into a tale about identity and blackness, about superstition and appetite, about who she was and who she was becoming (a woman who packed her own dang black-eyed peas).
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But none have captured, in such color and with such verve, the profoundly pagan sense of twinned superstition and celebration that informs the culture, the way the country masquerades as a contemporary one in its surfaces and in its technology while still believing, unswervingly, in gods and monsters, in the divinity of a tree.
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Or how about this one: In 1888, the Washington Post republished a bit on a "curious superstition" seen in London — "No marriage can be a happy one unless the bride has one hair of every member of her family sewn into the lining of her wedding gown," the news briefing read. Every. Member. Gross!
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Letters To the Editor: I applaud The Times for publishing Susan Jacoby's Sunday Review article decrying the grip that religion and superstition have on public discourse and politics in the United States: especially that so many people accept "God bless America" as sacrosanct when it is no such thing ("Sick and Tired of 'God Bless America,' " Feb. 7).
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The British alternative band was on tour supporting Superstition, its tenth full-length album, and the release that spawned its biggest US hit, "Kiss Them For Me." By 1992, the post-punk outfit was already more than 290 years into its career, and past the point where frontwoman Siouxsie Sioux was being compared to Patti Smith and Chrissie Hynde.
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Over the course of an hour he divulged some secrets (the next video to drop will be "Kill4Me" which will again star bosom buddy Johnny Depp) and we riffed on the cinematic flow of his new album Heaven Upside Down, superstition, the validity of the moon landing, astrological phenomenon, and whether or not he sleeps in his makeup.
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" For some more overt machismo — on an album largely geared to a female perspective — there's "The Wolf" by the Spencer Lee Band, with a riff vaguely hinting at Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" and a vocal that yowls like Mr. Wonder and hoots like Michael Jackson (and the Weeknd), leering, "Your body's sweating, dripping wet and I just can't control myself.
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The dangers of foreign invasion, tensions within the community over religious observance, the adversarial relationship between the insular Salem Village and the wealthier Salem Town, tensions over the use of folk magic, and various waves of outbreak of illness all contributed to an incident that was about so much more than mere superstition or mere misogyny or mere anything.
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The prey of "Blood Rites," a man who uses the rote monosyllables of porn "with a regularity which dried them meaningless," is both the surviving twin of "The Scattering" and the absent sailor in "The Superstition of Albatross"; the girl turned eel of "Starver" seems to be the fish "with an almost human intelligence" in the final story.
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Those scare quotes embrace the heart of Dexter Palmer's novel, ostensibly about a medical hoax but actually about the nature of belief, about reason and faith, science and superstition — in short, what people know in their gut can't be, yet seems to be and lots of people believe to be, and so in some sense is.
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I've long been a fan of the see-you-after-the-break tension and big, visual elements of shows like The Drop and Deal; with the latter it's those mysterious red boxes with their faux superstition, while on the former it's big stacks of pinkies teetering on trap doors as perma-tanned couples try to hold down their vomit.
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His face, caught up and expectant, declared him a full fevered participant in the strangest election season America has seen since anyone can remember, one in which everything might really be at stake, though of course we say that every time—as a mindless chant, a pinch of salt, a superstition to ward off the day it will be true.
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In its scope and seamless weaving of the fantastical and the quotidian, it owes a hefty debt to Gabriel García Márquez, though Mr Eka's magical realism is much earthier and less lyrical than his Latin American predecessor's (in a nifty bit of irony, the only character able consistently to use magic to his advantage is Kliwon, a communist who disavows religion and superstition).
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If a simple card in the mail can cast me back into the ancient reach of augury, I can only imagine the dread that claws at the heart of a mother whose child is serving in a part of the world where dangers are real and not merely imagined — where fear is of a piece with sacrifice and not of superstition.
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In 1749, as punishment for his skeptical and atheistic pamphlets, most particularly for his "Letter on the Blind" of that same year, an odd mixture of early perceptual psychology and a polemic against Christian superstition (the blind are both those who cannot see and those who choose not to see), Diderot was arrested and imprisoned, without trial or process, in the Vincennes dungeon.
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" And he discussed aspects critics later decried as stereotypes, writing that "because 'Porgy and Bess' deals with Negro life in America it brings to the operatic form elements that have never before appeared in opera and I have adapted my method to utilize the drama, the humor, the superstition, the religious fervor, the dancing and the irrepressible high spirits of the race.
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For instance, if a white person were halted on the streets of Orlando and told that Old Man Morgan, the excessively black Negro hoodoo man, can kill any person indicated and paid for, without ever leaving his house or even seeing his victim, he'd laugh in your face and walk away, wondering how long the Negro would wallow in ignorance and superstition.
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Jane L. Risen: When we use the word superstition, it more often than not, has to do with the control of good or bad luck, whereas magical thinking, is not necessarily about luck, but just about, sort of, how something can cause something else, even when there&aposs no, sort of, scientific evidence that those things would be causally connected.
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Charlie Waters, a safety for the Cowboys during the 1970s, told The Los Angeles Times in 2014 that superstition had played a role in Edwards's game, particularly in a 1975 divisional playoff game against the Minnesota Vikings in which Roger Staubach, the Cowboys' quarterback, heaved a 50-yard desperation pass to Drew Pearson for a winning touchdown with 24 seconds left.
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